[NLRS] WA0VPJ/R September VHF Contest Report

[John Pope]

This was a good one.  Even though there weren't the
opennings we had in June and July, it was a good
contest. We covered quite a bit of territory this
time.  We went out into EN15, EN14 and EN13 to see
what it would be like.  Even though it was a long ways
from the Twin Cities, I felt we had a good chance at
contacting a bunch of people.  The big surprise was
finding a couple of locations in EN13 and EN23 that
were dynamite.  I want to thank everyone that were
there when we got to each grid, particularly N0KP,
N9TTX, KF0Q/R and N0VZJ.  The prize does go to Vince,
N0VZJ though.  We made contacts on 4 bands from 10
grids except for EN45.  We did not get a 432 contact. 
I could hear him but he couldn't hear me.  The 432 amp
that I had ordered didn't get there in time, otherwise
that would have made the difference.  I also want to
thank my antenna rotor and logger Mark, AI0Z for his
help.  It was fun running into KF0Q/R in EN33 and
having an eyeball QSO.  Bill, K0AWU, I called you from
every grid I was in, but we only connected from a
couple.  I thought maybe I woke you up that one time
you came back from one of my calls. :-) The long
distance contacts go to N0UNL/EN10, KA9FAJ/EN40,
N8LIQ/EN56 and K2DRH/EN41.

Summary

Band    Qso's  Qso Pts  Total  Grids Wrkd
50       48      1       48       14
144      91      1       91       18
222      49      2       98       11
432      58      2      116       12

Grids Activated                   10

Totals  246             353       65  = 22945 pts

I had a great time and was really tired when I got
home last night as a few of you might have been able
to tell as I was driving on 694 getting the last few
contacts in EN35.

73 John
WA0VPJ/R

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